The National Academy of Sciences has awarded James Schnable, a plant geneticist at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, one of ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. ST. LOUIS - A team of scientists led by researchers at Washington University has completed a detailed "blueprint" of the genetic ...

Seed Genetics Direct Vice President Todd Jeffries recently announced the winners of the company’s 2025 Yield Contest, ...

AMES, Iowa – Organic agriculture practices eschew many synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, putting pressure on crops that conventional farming circumvents. That means an organic farmer who doesn’t ...

AMES, Iowa – A research team including Iowa State University and United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) personnel has identified genetic structures in corn ...

Corn growing in the Irene Rose Sohn Zegar Memorial Greenhouse on the top floor of NYU’s Center for Genomics and Systems Biology. New York University scientists are using artificial intelligence to ...

Take a drive to the country and have a look. See those corn plants standing tall in the August sun? Each has about 40,000 different genes in its genome, thousands more than that of a human. Only about ...

The new study led by Alexandre Marand reveals previously hidden information about the activity of genes inside different cell types. This provides essential context that helps better understand how ...

If a biologist had to pick one living thing as the textbook of how genes work, what would it be? Corn seems to be a good answer. Now the scientific world has at hand the complete genome sequence of ...